Julius hotohkiss



J. HOTGHKISS. SUSPENDERS.

. No. 8,606. Patented Dec. 23, 1851.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS HOTCHKISS, OE WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HOTCHKISS & MERRIAN MANFG. CO.

SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JULIUS HoTcHKIss, of ater-bury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Art of Manufacturing Suspenders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

My improvement consists in fastening the different pieces or parts of the suspender together wherever a permanent fastening is necessary, by means of a metallic clasp or clamp of peculiar construction and made and applied in the following manner.

I first take a slip of metal of suitable size of which the drawing marked No. 1 may serve as an illustration (but which may be varied in width, length and thickness according to the width and size of the straps or pieces which are to be fastened together) and by any suitable machinery I bend up the two ends (see drawing marked No. 2 I then place the ends which I wish to fasten together of the two parts or pieces of the suspender within the bend thus formed lapping or laying one of the pieces upon the other (see drawing marked No. 3 And then by means of a press or punch of suitable construction I curve inward the two ends of the slip of metal thus bent and bring them down firmly over and upon the ends of the pieces to be fastened together 8,606, dated December 23, 1851.

(see drawings marked No. 4, N0. 5 No. 6 representing parts of different forms fastened in this manner).

I use this clasp or clamp principally in fastening the pieces of leather or cord in which or from which the button holes of the supender are formed to the other parts of the suspender and when thus used its ad vantages are, first, that it is a stronger fastening than the common method of sewing; second, that it enables me to use heavier single leather or cord for the button holes without giving the articlea clumsy appearance; third, that it enables me to use small scraps or pieces of buckskin or other material left by manufacturers of gloves,

mittens and other leather goods (which have heretofore been useless to suspender makers owing to the difficulty of making a neat and substantial connection with a single thickness of leather) thus enabling me to afford a cheaper article and of a better quality than by the ordinary method.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The fastening of those difl erentparts of a suspender to each other, which require a permanent fastening, by a metallic clasp or clamp, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described.

JULIUS HOTCHKISSV Witnesses:

FREDERICK J. KINGSBUBY JOHN DEACON. 

